Indonesian Dreads Singing Marley

  • Posted on: 8 May 2014
  • By: admin

under a bare 100 watt bulb
in an old hotel in Yogyakarta
on the island of Java
paint peeling under exposed wires
laundry piled under
soot-coated pipes


filtered through cigarette smoke
and beer glasses
in the cool midnight air
to the rhythm of one guitar


in soft voices
filled with longing
we sing
long into the night
these songs of freedom